Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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COMBAT reporting is never a safe or simple job. But even for case-hardened veterans, the Nigerian civil war presents one of the meanest assignments yet. Merely getting in and out of Biafra is a dangerous and doubtful proposition. The irregular airlift from Lisbon flies through Nigerian antiaircraft fire to reach a makeshift airstrip that is only open at night. When correspondents finally manage to get in, they are shuttled off to quarters in the Progress Hotel in Aba, the country's provisional capital. When they are not in the field, they face the hazards of the Progress menu...
...former capital of the Eastern Region, for an eyewitness report of relief operations. also had valuable background files from TIME'S Nairobi Bureau Chief Edwin Reingold and Ottawa Bureau Chief Alan Grossman. During two years in West Africa, Grossman covered the Ibo massacres that led to the present civil war. Among his more vivid memories, Grossman recalled walking along the platform at the Kano railroad station, "a handkerchief clasped to my nose to dull the lingering stench of more than a hundred Ibo corpses." For him, too, it was all a depressing experience...
Obviously, agreed the court, it is unduly difficult for a Negro to get representation, particularly in Plaquemines Parish. "The circumstances convince us that Sobol was prosecuted only because he was a civil rights lawyer forcefully representing a Negro." Although it halted Sobol's prosecution, the court did not go so far as to find the state's legal-practice statutes unconstitutional. But even so, Sobol feels that his case will serve as a healthy precedent. "The decision," he says, "makes pretty clear that an out-of-state lawyer properly practicing this kind...
...budgets of both schools. "Once the universities begin to accept the idea as a fait accompli," says Education Minister Brian Lenihan, "they will begin to concentrate on how better to make it work." The fact that the merger could be proposed at all, without creating a religious civil war, is an impressive measure of how far Ireland has come in burying its angry past...
...almost continuous violence. Besides Korea and Viet Nam, there have been at least 50 other conflicts of major proportions. In this big handsome book, Author-Photographer Carl Mydans and his wife Shelley, both of whom have distinguished themselves as TIME-LIFE combat correspondents, examine a China torn by civil war, the bloody and futile efforts of the French to hang on to a lost empire in Indo-China, the insurrection in Greece, the partition riots in India. In a litany of violence, they tick off wars and disorders in Palestine, Malaya, the big conflict in Korea, Quemoy-Matsu, Algeria, Hungary...